The Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic (MF SR) is designated as the Audit Authority (AA) for the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) under Act No 292/2014 on the contribution provided from the European Structural and Investment Funds and amending certain acts, as amended. The submitted project follows on from a previous project of the MF SR as an AA implemented under the OP Technical Assistance under the title 'Funding of salary expenditure of the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic to ensure the activity of the audit authority – 2019 (code ITMS2014+ No 301011Y145), whose implementation of the main activities was completed in December 2019. The objective of the present project is to ensure the roles and responsibilities of the AA under EU legislation by refinancing the eligible amount of salary and levy expenditure of the administrative capacity of the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic participating in the activities of the AA during the period of implementation of the project. Support for administrative capacity from the ESI Funds will help to ensure the stability of the AA’s professional staff and the quality of the AA’s tasks under Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as well as other EU and Slovak legislation. The project also refinances the eligible amount of wage and levy expenditure of MF SR staff carrying out support activities for the AA and expenditure on staff carrying out activities for the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic as an AA on the basis of agreements on non-employment works concluded under the Labour Code.The measurable indicators of the project are ‘P0740 – Average number of workers reimbursed from OP TP’ and ‘P0741 – Number of reimbursable hours of non-employment employees’. The applicant assumes that the measurable indicator P0740 will reach 50 employees during the project implementation and the measurable indicator P0741 will be 1 100,00 hours.